The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-11
COMMENT AND OPINION.

AS it will be understood in foreign countries it
is serious reflection upon the American people.
National Republican.
THE best '.anti-poverty society" for multi
tude of people would be to- enroll their names
among teerotaiers. Whisky and beer money
thus saved would make a million people rich
who. with continued tipping. will end mp in the
poor use-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Now that he 1.-THE President has publicly pro-
claimed that he expected to be insulted by the
Grand Army organization if he ventured to visit
the ST. Louis encampment he will be likely to
receive some new impressions Of veteran dis
pleasure before he hears the last of his latest
letter.-Cincnnati Commercial Gazette
AN insult offered to the President at St Louis
would have effaced tho bad impression made by
the unfortunate battle-flag order, and it would
have been good politics for him to have gone to
a chance But Mr.. Cleveland to have
lost his Observation-Disclosures American.
1T is little curious that Immediately after the
Comptroller of the Currency publicly endorsed all
unaffected by the Fidelity Bank failure, it
should be discovered that two of these very
banks would have gone down with the Fidelity
but for outside help-National Republican.
THE meaning of the President in speaking of
"the Confederate States" and of lex Union
soldiers" is perfectly clear. but these phrases
show that he is not making as happy use of
LANGUAGE as in the pamy days OF 'innocuous
desuetude,n offensive partisanship." '.rernicious
activity" and '.ghoulish glee."-Philadelphia
North American.
So long every man may as freely purchase
land as bread, SO long as he may hold it unques-
toned for himself and heritage for his
children, so long will the theory of Henry George
find favor in the United States only among the
idle, vicious, thriftiess. the aliens who, in
other lands, were the vassals of landlords as
we'll as the tillers OF the soiL-Philadelphia
Evening Telegraph.
UTAH should not be admitted to the Union
until the Mormon Church formally renounces
the doctrine OF polygamy and the people have
abandoned the practice for period sufficient to
guarantee that both doctrine and practice have
been absolutely given up, unless in the mean
time the Mormon population should fall into
decided minority and the prevailing sentiment
of the people become such as to give assurance
of the enforcement of laws and constitutional
provisions against plural marriages in form or
substance.-New York Times.
PRoHIBrTIoNIsTs are to be credited with the
first real efforts. North or South to absolutely
obliterate the color line in politics. It was the
Prohibitionist party that placed tho first coored
man on State ticket in Pennsylvania and it is
the Prohibition contest in Texas that has led to
the counting of the black vote of that State
equal terms by liquor men and Prohibtionists-
When In the other political contests of the South
the same thing shall have manifested itself the
claim that the negro is deprived of his political
rights will have vanished. -Philadelphia Times.
If Mr. Cleveland will confine hie pen to public
documents and leave the traffic in sectional
hate and threats of personal violence to The
proper and natural fields of discussion, he will
maintain the dignity of his Office on much
higher plane than can be done by telling why